Aggregate haul roads radiating out of Godley
Granbury Mine, a sand and gravel operation listed by the Mine Safety and Health Administration, lies 12.6 miles north-west of town, and GCH Materials works the same material 15.3 miles to the south-west. Dump trucks and end-dump tractors that cycle between those pits can be collected right at the yard gate. Give us the site name and a contact who can let our driver in.
To the south, the Nemo Plant crushed-stone quarry sits 14 miles out and Plant & Quarry 15.4 miles out, both on the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s list, while Imperial Products Supply Granbury cuts dimension stone 13.6 miles south-west. If your rig hauled from one of these quarries, say which one, send the VIN and a set of photos of the bed, frame and cab, and we will ask the rest from there.
Tank and rail sites
Carry Transit, the Cleburne yard and the Aledo terminal
Carry Transit, a liquid bulk terminal on the Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ list, stands 6.4 miles south-east of Godley. A tractor that pulled tankers in and out of that site can stay parked where it last unloaded; tell us the address and who holds the key, and the pickup is planned around it.
Rail traffic gathers at the CLEBURNE yard 10.8 miles south-east, a location the North American Rail Network, kept by the Federal Railroad Administration and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, records. Up north, the Energy Information Administration lists the ALEDO WEST FORT WORTH petroleum product terminal 19.7 miles away. Drivers who ran fuel loads from Aledo should have the registration and any service records ready when they call.
Local trucking
Who runs trucks out of Godley’s registrations
Of the 78 active carriers FMCSA’s carrier census places in Godley, 63 keep to intrastate work and just 15 cross the Texas line. Most trucks sold here, then, will be registered and parked within Texas, which keeps the paperwork to one state’s rules.
General freight is the cargo 46 of those carriers list, per FMCSA’s carrier census; farm supplies and machinery or large objects each appear on 18 registrations, and grain, feed and hay on 17. Flatbeds, lowboys, hay trailers and van tractors all fall inside what we purchase, so mention the trailer when you mention the tractor.
Private fleets account for 28 of the town’s carriers in FMCSA’s census, and the biggest of them runs 17 power units with 14 drivers. If you are selling several units at once from a yard like that, list each VIN together and we can collect them on one arrangement.
Godley operators who started in 2024 and 2025
Eleven carriers registered here for the first time in 2025, up from five in 2024, according to FMCSA’s carrier census. An owner-operator who started recently may still have the purchase papers close at hand; keep the bill of sale and title together with the truck’s registration.
Across 24 local carriers that reported mileage, the median sits at 34,167 miles per truck each year in FMCSA’s carrier census. Write down the current odometer reading before you get in touch; it is one of the first figures we ask for.
Roadside checks of Godley-based tractors and straight trucks
FMCSA roadside inspection records from September 2024 to August 2026 cover 58 trucks from Godley carriers, with a median model year of 2015, and those same records put just over 55 percent of them at ten or more model years old when inspected.
Whatever the year on your truck, the steps are the same: the VIN, the odometer, clear photos of each side and the cab, and the title in hand. Any inspection reports you kept from those roadside stops can travel with the truck as part of its history.
Replacing a lost Texas certificate at Mill Street
Titles in Texas are issued by the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, which handles copies through county tax assessor-collector offices. For Godley, the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles lists the Johnson County Tax Office at 2 North Mill Street, Cleburne, 76033, about 11.5 miles from town.
If the certificate is missing, start the replacement there before we schedule a collection, and bring your identification and the truck’s VIN. Tell us early if a lien is still listed, so the release can be sorted alongside the copy.
Ranch and contractor rigs
Cattle, milk and construction in the local economy
Around Godley, cattle, milk and corn top the list for the 2,745 farms that USDA’s 2022 Census of Agriculture counts across Johnson County. Livestock haulers, bulk milk tractors and grain trucks parked on a ranch can be picked up from the property; give us the gate location and any turn-off directions.
Construction makes up 6.1 percent of work located in Godley under the Census Bureau’s LEHD job counts for 2023, and County Business Patterns records 26 construction establishments in the area. Contractors with a dump truck or a tractor that pulled an equipment trailer between job sites can sell it from the last site it worked.
None of the fourteen structures the National Bridge Inventory lists around Godley carries a posted load limit or a clearance below fourteen feet. That leaves the local routes open to the truck we send for your rig, so the collection can happen wherever it is parked.
The questions we get asked in Godley
- Our end-dump is still sitting at Granbury Mine; must I haul it home to town before selling?Granbury Mine, 12.6 miles north-west of Godley by the Mine Safety and Health Administration’s listing, is a place our driver can load from directly. Pass along the name and phone number of whoever unlocks the pit entrance.
- Who issues a replacement certificate for a Godley truck whose title went missing?The Johnson County Tax Office at 2 North Mill Street in Cleburne, 11.5 miles away, handles copies for the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. Take a photo ID along with the truck’s VIN when you go.
- Do you buy hay and feed trucks from ranches around Godley?Grain, feed and hay is the listed cargo for 17 Godley carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census, and those trucks are on our list. Share the VIN, a few photos and directions to the ranch gate off the county road.
- Can I sell a Godley tractor that has only carried Texas plates and intrastate authority?Sixty-three of Godley’s 78 carriers in FMCSA’s carrier census are intrastate only, so a Texas-only registration is the common case here. Have the registration and title ready.